How to Replace One Array index with another array in Php [duplicate] - php

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Am using Php as my serverside scripting language.In my project I used Json string decoded into array.
My problem is how to overwrite the existing array index based on an array value.
my existing array looks like :
$array1 =[
{
"Name":"apple",
"color":"red",
"property":[
{
"p1":"value1",
"p2":"value2"
}
]
},
{
"Name":"Grape",
"color":"violet",
"property":[
{
"p1":"value1",
"p2":"value2"
}
]
}
];
and the updated array content looks:
$upadatearray = [
{
"Name":"apple",
"color":"green",
"property":[
{
"p1":"newvalue",
"p2":"newvalue2"
}
]
}
];
I want to update the existing $array1 with new $upadatearray , bsed on the "Name" .If it is same then replace.
I want to look like:
$finalarray =[
{
"Name":"apple",
"color":"green",
"property":[
{
"p1":"newvalue",
"p2":"newvalue2"
}
]
},
{
"Name":"Grape",
"color":"violet",
"property":
[
{
"p1":"value1",
"p2":"value2"
}
]
}
];
I tried this :
for($j=0;$j<count($array1);$j++)
{
if($array1[$j]['Name'] == $upadatearray[0]['Name'])
$finalarray = array_replace($array1[$j],$upadatearray[0]);
}
But it will not work correctly.Is there any possible solution ?

Answer 1

Let you have this two arrays:
$array1 ='[{"Name":"apple","color":"red","property":[{"p1":"value1","p2":"value2"}]},{"Name":"Grape","color":"violet","property":[{"p1":"value1","p2":"value2"}]}]';
$upadatearray = '[{"Name":"apple", "color":"green", "property":[{"p1":"newvalue","p2":"newvalue2"}]}]';
$array1 = json_decode($array1, true);
$upadatearray = json_decode($upadatearray, true);
You can use array_replace function. But to make it replace items based on the Name column you should first make this column a key of array
function make_column_key($arr, $col_name) {
$keys = array_column($arr, $col_name);
$result = array_combine($keys, $arr);
return $result;
}
$array1 = make_column_key($array1, 'Name');
$upadatearray = make_column_key($upadatearray, 'Name');
And now simply use array_replace
$finalarray = array_replace($array1, $upadatearray);
If you don't need Name be the key of final array, you can get only values:
$finalarray = array_values($finalarray);

Answer 2

hi I think this code will help you.
//what i did is i created a final array variable which gets the value of old array.
$finalArray = $array1;
//then i perform a foreach loop for old array
foreach ($array1 as $key => $oldarray) {
//inside the updated array
foreach ($upadatearray as $key => $newarray) {
//if old array name and new array name is same replace content on the final array
if ($oldarray['Name'] == $newarray['Name']) {
$finalArray['Name'] = $newarray['Name'];
}
}
}